Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/the-father-of-the-internet-is-finally-retiring/

by compiler-guy • 13 days ago

379 175 13 days ago

kappi• 13 days ago

He made millions last 20 years at Google without doing much and just being a honorary post, not sure what he feels about BS jobs like this

sollewitt• 11 days ago

Vint took what could have been a prestige emeritus position at Google and turned it into a platform to champion accessibility and “Greyglers”. The man has more class than his suits.

sph• 11 days ago

Of all the millionaires in the world, I feel he’s earned a little bit of monetary recognition for his achievements.

Had I coinvented TCP/IP, I’d gladly take a bullshit, cushy paying job in my latter half of my career as a ‘reward’

fridek• 11 days ago

I couldn't disagree more.

I personally witnessed Vint give valuable advice to managers like me, often in difficult cases. It sounds banal but often in a large corp you know what you need to do, but will have a lot of - justified or not - doubt about whether you can get through the bureaucratic molasses and the political interests of your higher ups. Vint's backing enabled a lot of people to do what's right.

One of my colleagues has printed and framed a reply from such a thread, where he offered an opinion in support of another manger. Vint replied "This is good advice. V.".

I hope he enjoys retirement, well deserved

chips_not_fries• 11 days ago

A genuine innovator

No matter what you think of Google

echelon• 11 days ago

Google can't tarnish Vint Cerf.

There are lots of brilliant people at Google who do no evil.

The fact that the company makes evil decisions about the direction of the web, privacy, and performs blatantly monopolistic actions does not outweigh the good things people at Google have done. At least not yet.

You can hate the company but love the brilliant work the engineers have done. The same can be said of lots of companies: Apple, Anthropic, ...

Meta, on the other hand, I'm not so sure about. It's less of an overt monopoly, but some of its actions are heinously amoral.

ChrisMarshallNY3• 11 days ago

Wasn’t the first time, for him, but he has managed to keep his name in the clear.

He worked for MCI/Worldcomm, before Google. Bernie Ebbers went to jail, for that.

Ahh… the good ol’ days, when we actually jailed scumbag billionaires, instead of voting massive pay bumps…

bflesch• 11 days ago

His name shows up in Epstein files as #1 on Epstein's list of scientists

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA003070...

linguae2• 11 days ago

I may be biased since I interned at Google in 2013 and 2014, but Google in the 2000s and early 2010s felt downright magical as someone who wanted to pursue a career in systems software research. They made impressive technologies that still hold up today, like MapReduce, BigTable, and Spanner. They hired many legends of computer science and software engineering, such as Rob Pike and Jeff Dean.

I’m concerned about the power that Google and other Big Tech companies have, but from a technical point of view Google has a lot of impressive technologies, and from a workplace standpoint, it seemed idyllic back in the early 2010s, though I’ve heard the work culture has changed in the past decade, and I may have rose-colored glasses from only being an intern there, never a full-timer.

kaladin-jasnah2• 10 days ago

who wanted to pursue a career in systems software research

I interacted with many professors in OS research and other adjacent systems fields when touring grad schools and I heard or saw that some were extremely toxic or intense compared to other fields I saw. With OS at least, big tech companies seem to hold a lot of influence over research directions (eg. so much of it is specifically for AI datacenters, or for one company's AI datacenter problems), and I asked OS professors about this and got disheartened replies that there was nothing they could do because of the incentives in the field. I was quite disillusioned. I know that AI being a hot new topic makes leaves more stones unturned and might lead to more publishability, but it's still depressing.

pwdisswordfishq• 11 days ago

a relatively good career

What's that for?

lkramer• 11 days ago

I believe it's what is called a joke. I'm with you, I don't like them either.

khurs• 11 days ago

It's written down so no body language.

The video probably shows a wide smile whilst saying it.

TurdF3rguson• 11 days ago

[flagged]

tonyhart7• 11 days ago

Imagine creating internet to connect people and live to see the day that most internet traffic is Bot and AI talk to each other is fascinating

I wonder what he feeling about it

croes3• 11 days ago

Nitpicking: a father of the internet not the father. There is more than one.

pipes• 11 days ago

I'm reading "where the wizards stay up late", and I was thinking the same thing. It's difficult to keep track of who is who but I'm pretty certain Cerf has appeared yet. I'm not that far through.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Where-Wizards-Stay-Up-Late/dp/06848...

(Well actually I'm listening to it not reading, maybe that's why I can't keep track of the protagonists!)

tomhow4• 11 days ago

Thanks! We’ve updated the title.

jibal6• 11 days ago

Eh? Vint is KNOWN AS "the father of the Internet", and that's what TFA's title says.

https://web.archive.org/web/20131104212006/http://deafness.a...

He is routinely referred to as "the father of the internet,"

There is no one else who is referred to that way. If you google "father of the Internet", Vint pops up.

https://www.inmesol.com/blog/fathers-internet/

Vinton Cerf (Connecticut, 1943) Considered to be the founding father of the Internet.

raychis• 11 days ago

Thought this was about Tim Berners-Lee, he is the only father I know.

almost• 11 days ago

Father of the web sure. But HTTP is not the Internet!

Jaxan• 11 days ago

Which also shows there isn’t “one father”, multiple things (and people) had to come together.

cxr2• 10 days ago

And the Web is not HTTP!

uwagar• 11 days ago

he the mother

jdw64• 11 days ago

How amazing it must be to be called the 'father' of something that everyone uses... I'm envious. Could I ever create something like that? As a programmer, the dream is always to build something that others actually use properly.

Angostura• 11 days ago

I interviewed him a few times, when I was a tech journalist in the 90s - a very impressive man.

However I never forget my surprise, Idly flicking through TV one evening and coming across Earth Final Conflict - and there was Vint in a fairly substantial role

nubinetwork2• 11 days ago

The dude is in his 80s, he should have been allowed to retire decades ago.

zeafoamrun• 11 days ago

Lots of people continue working because they enjoy it and to keep busy.

nubinetwork2• 11 days ago

When I retire, I'm working on my stuff, not anyone else's. :)

ChrisMarshallNY3• 11 days ago

I was forced to retire, at 55. Good ol’ SV ageism at work. Wasn’t happy about it -at all, but I’m fortunate, in having the means to do so.

That was almost nine years ago, and I actually increased my development work, with the caveat that no one pays me to do it, anymore.

Probably one of the best things that ever happened to me, but I didn’t think so, at the time.

I wish him luck.

bookofjoe• 10 days ago

I had to look up SV

pastor_williams2• 10 days ago

He doesn't need to work, and he isn't really retiring even now. He is leaving Google but will be working on the interplanetary internet

wwind1232• 11 days ago

I still remember back in 2005 when I just joined a company, a coworker was quipping Google is not a real elite company, because it doesn't even have a Turing Award winner. I showed him the news that Vint Cerf joined Google recently.

FartyMcFarter• 11 days ago

Now they have several Turing Award winners, and several Nobel Prize winners.

mahouk2• 10 days ago

I wonder if the transformer inventors will ever get a Turing (honestly proving to be one of the most transformative - no pun intended - technologies of the millennium so far). I know pretty much all of them left Google but they'd still be counted as alumni.

incognito124• 11 days ago

I'm relatively young and my first exposure to life and work of Vint Cerf was through DTN and Interplanetary Internet. What a life of accomplishment!

aooao• 11 days ago

I wonder if he would have designed TCP/IP differently if he'd had the chance to have a second go of it.

Maybe having multiple streams within a single connection, like QUIC does, would have been a better choice. Also being able to demarcate message boundaries within the protocol itself, perhaps, instead of it being a simple byte stream.

kristopolous• 11 days ago

he's answered this question a few times. It's basically "how was I supposed to have any idea what the implications were?" He said something like "16 bit, 32 bit, 48 bit addressing, it felt all equally improbable. Why would there ever be 65,000 computers on this network?"

johannes1234321• 10 days ago

"... Why would there ever be 65,000 computers on this network?"

This thinking can be seen in the allocation of network blocks. Mercedes Benz getting 53.0.0.0/8 is just a "we have more addresses than we ever need."

If somebody had imagined "yeah, let's give an address to each of our vehicles" they would have realized the space running out.

fragmede5• 11 days ago

The computers of today are vastly more capable than the computers of the day when he came up with TCP/IP so if he were to have a second chance, knowing what he knows now, we'd have to calibrate it against the fact that computers in the 1970s simply weren't as capable as the beasts we have today.

greyface-• 11 days ago

if he'd had the chance to have a second go of it

In a sense, he did. Take a look at RFC 4838.

Sesse__4• 11 days ago

I was at a talk where he brought up exactly this (I also once did a talk alongside him, but that's a different story). He said there would be two changes:

1. It would have 128-bit addresses. 2. It would have end-to-end encryption (or was it authentication, I forget).

IPv6 was supposed to fix both of these, with IPsec mandatory, but the latter demand sort of faded out into obscurity. We ended up basically solving encryption by pushing everything into TLS anyway, which I guess solved much of the same problems although at a very different layer.

hyperman1• 11 days ago

Doing this brings you close to OSI, which famously failed by being overcomplicated. The current design was implementable by zillions of cheap humans running cheap hardware.

I always wonder if the internet is thesurvivor of the networking cambrian explosion, with a slight roll of the dice making another candidate the winner.

throw0101a3• 10 days ago

We ended up basically solving encryption by pushing everything into TLS anyway, which I guess solved much of the same problems although at a very different layer.

The "solving" of encryption with TLS should not be celebrated.

Everything needs to go over TLS/HTTP-443 because of middleware boxes basically blocking everything else by default in many cases, and so application/protocol designs have to shoehorn / kludge everything into a round hole even if it's a square peg.

Certainly I'd want everything to have encryption at the higher layers (OSI 5-7), but having opportunistic encryption at IP (OSI 3) would also be great because snoopers could tell that two nodes are communicating but not how / what: RTSP? Torrent? Mindcraft? PvP2 game? If every node could (say) do an IKEv2 negotiation with every other node have IP-level traffic wrapped in IPsec that would help with traffic analysis.

alienchow• 10 days ago

It would depend on whether the computers back then could handle that (along with all the crypto algorithms in their infancy) when A:\ and B:\ weren't even a thing.

crackez• 10 days ago

Not like CP/CMS predates the Internet or anything... /s

justin663• 10 days ago

There’s a whole body of work in the form of public statements and documents from Vint Cerf on that topic. You could explore Google for hours…

https://spectrum.ieee.org/vint-cerf-mistakes

djtriptych6• 11 days ago

hah. I was an intern at Google in 2005 when he was hired and remember the wave of reverence that went through Mountain View. Salute to a legend!

It’s like two lifetimes in tech years. I remember that summer Google Earth was launched, we were a year removed from the Gmail launch, and I worked on shipping the first Summer of Code.

manuisin• 11 days ago

wow, that was the golden age of Google.

djtriptych6• 10 days ago

I don't want to name him as he's decently well known, but I'm pretty sure my mentor monitored Vint's interview to make sure no one accidentally rejected him for a coding error or something.

djtriptych6• 10 days ago

They were really going after all the legends.

Google hired Guido van Rossum around the same time. I worked down the hall from Rob Pike, they had already hired Peter Weinberger (the w from `awk`), and I shared a 4-person office with Gren Stein, who was then director of the Apache Software Foundation.

jrockway• 10 days ago

I worked on GFiber in the mid 2010s. We were having a debate about IPv6 support, which many people wanted to not do. I wrote a far-too-long essay on why it was important (at the time) and Vint picked it up to yell at the leadership team to get it prioritized. It was truly an "only at Google" experience to have someone who essentially invented the Internet reading your posts and acting on them.

(I guess a decade later, was IPv6 important? Still not sure about that one. But it seemed important at the time.)

djtriptych6• 10 days ago

Wow Google Fiber what a blast from the past.

I eventually went full time at Google NYC in the early 2010s - I remember the internal uproar when Reader was sunsetted =)

jibal6• 11 days ago

I worked on the ARPANET project under Steve Crocker at UCLA and met his bud Vint there (with his ever-present 3 piece suit, briefcase, and hearing aids) ... what a great guy.

An anecdote: I wrote a program (in Sigma-7 assembler I think) to play Jotto--a bit like Mastermind but with 5 letter words. Vint loved to poke around in people's directories to see what they were up to and found my program. He played it a few times, and then collared me to ask me a couple of questions: 1) It seemed to know some of the words he entered but not all -- what was up with that? 2) What sort of AI algorithm was I using for the program to make guesses? (It usually beat the human player.)

Answers: 1) I didn't have a digitized dictionary (it was 1969!) so I hand-entered the five letter words from a pocket dictionary but got tired halfway through so it only knew words starting with a-l. 2) The program would eliminate any words that didn't fit the responses to its guesses so far and then pick a remaining word at random.

Upon hearing my answers Vint walked away in disgust! But years later he gave me a recommendation when I interviewed with Google (it didn't work out for other reasons).

I also shared a cubicle wall with another Van Nuys High alumni, Jon Postel, aka "God of the Internet". Sartorially, Jon was the complete opposite of Vint--long scraggly beard, blue jeans, forever barefoot--but those weren't the things that mattered. Man, those were the days.

treyd2• 10 days ago

Sounds like he was frustrated he lost and thought the program was a lot more clever than it was. :)

jibal6• 10 days ago

He was disappointed in himself that he hadn't realized that the word recognition "algorithm" was just "every word starting with a-l" -- he had speculated that there was in fact some sort of linguistic algorithm to determine whether a word was valid, not just a built-in hemi-dictionary.

And he was disappointed in me or the program or the nature of reality that the play algorithm was so simple and dumb ... but it was a slow machine with limited memory, and doing better is actually quite hard and I hadn't invested the time to do so.

foobarian• 10 days ago

Wow that's wild. Our org spent years playing jotto on office whiteboards before Covid. There would just be games going in random places.

jamesbelchamber• 11 days ago

IP on everything :D

nickdothutton• 11 days ago

Worked with some of his team when I was at MCI/Worldcom. We stand on the shoulders of giants.

p1dda• 11 days ago

How many "father's of the Internet" are there exactly?

Y-bar• 11 days ago

Exactly as many as the USA has founding fathers, give or take a few. Which is to say less than in the Fathers of Mercy.

baxtr• 11 days ago

Al Gore is definitely one of them!

dctoedt• 11 days ago

Al Gore is definitely one of them!

Absolutely correct — and that's not sarcasm or irony. (Gore never claimed to have "invented the Internet"; that was a calumny spread by Republicans.)

throw0101a3• 11 days ago

Al Gore is definitely one of them!

Al Gore Jr.'s father, the Sr., was instrumental in enacting the US Interstate Highway system:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Gore_Sr.#U.S._Senate

Which transformed the economy for physical goods. Jr saw parallels with the transportation of information, and coined a term (in 1978!) about it:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_superhighway

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore_and_information_techno...

cxr2• 11 days ago

There's always some nincompoop who brings that up. Al Gore deserves credit for what he did as a senator and vice president. He helped to pass legislation that enabled the NSFNET backbone to grow and to permit commercial traffic to flow on the government-sponsored backbones in the US. Had he not done that, it's pretty likely that the commercial sector would not have seen an opportunity to create a commercial internet that all of us can enjoy, so he does deserve some credit for what he's done.

— Vint Cerf, Tracking the Internet into the 21st Century <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf0rjtnwC9A>

My_Name2• 11 days ago

You have to wonder about the "Mother of the Internet" at this point...

slim• 10 days ago

DoD

wbl• 10 days ago

Radia Perlman is the name that jumps to mind for me, but there are a bunch of others.

fragmede5• 10 days ago

Ooh, several of those as well! Sibling comment mentions Radia Perlman. She invented Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) which prevents loops in wiring from taking down networks. (Plug an Ethernet cable into the same switch it comes out of.) This has saved everyone's bacon countless times. Elizabeth Feinler managed hostnames before there was DNS and helped establish several of the top level domains (TLD)s we use today. There's Karen Spärck Jones without whom, search engines wouldn't be what they are today. Judy Estrin helped with TCP/IP, Sally Floyd worked on congestion control algorithms, without which, the Internet would have gotten all choked up and never gotten off the ground. Susan Estrada helped commercialize the Internet, with her work on internet exchanges (IX), and Jean Armour Polly gets credit for coining the phrase "surfing the Internet." but should be better known for pioneering public Internet access and for her work with families and kids getting online.

These women played a critical role in creating the Internet we have today.

fragmede5• 11 days ago

The two that are most widely recognized are Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, for TCP/IP, but that's just the start of it. There's JCR Licklider, who first imagined a global network of computers. There's Leonard Kleinrock, first ARPANET nod and packet-switching theory. Larry Roberts, who led development of ARPANET. Paul Baran independently invented packet switching. Donald Davies coined the term "packet" and also developed packet switching. Louis Pouzin also worked on TCP/IP. Jon Postel managed the IP standards and address assignments for decades. Ray Tomlinson invented email and the @ sign. Of course, we can't forget Tim Berneres-Lee, to whom we credit the invention of the web (HTTP, HTML, URLS, the first web browser and server).

So, eleven.

The Dream Machine is a history book by M. Mitchell Waldrop that tells the story of JCR Licklider.

mahouk2• 10 days ago

Vannevar Bush?

jvanderbot3• 11 days ago

I met Vint at the Kech Institute for Space Studies. He arrived to help us look at in-space data centers for planetary science throughout the solar system. He was a big proponent of delay-tolerant networking and other useful networking stacks, so he was the "rep" for that layer of problems.

Just the nicest guy you could imagine. He took the note-takers job during our breakouts, had beers with us after the session, and asked really good questions and never asserted anything the whole time.

What a legend.

ixaxaar2• 11 days ago

Apparently there's "more to come" and its not a complete retirement.

justin663• 10 days ago

It’s hard to imagine that guy sitting still.

skeeter20202• 10 days ago

true - my first reaction was this seems like a weird milestone, as people like Vint Cerf don't really retire and stop, just change how & where they contribute. This seems like a nothing story pushed by TC and Google PR, more than a real event.

waste_monk• 9 days ago

I had the pleasure of attending a presentation he held a bit over a decade ago (public event hosted by the university, back when I was a student).

I didn't get an opportunity to talk to him personally after the event as there was a large queue of senior academics and other VIPs already waiting, but I did see him taking the time to talk first to some school-aged kids who had attended.

He seems like a really nice, humble guy, and looked genuinely happy to be encouraging the kids' interest in the sciences.

atombender• 11 days ago

Anyone know what he actually did at Google? Was it an active role, did he publish anything interesting? Or was it more of an Institute for Advanced Study kind of position?

bushbaba• 10 days ago

He was hired to go to meetings and state “I’m vint cerf, I work at Google” then blab for 2 mins and introduce the actual speaker for a meeting/conference.

Similar ish to an influencer

IncreasePosts2• 10 days ago

I loved being able to say "vint cerf, my coworker, invented the internet"

skeeter20202• 10 days ago

maybe this is a good thing though, where someone with a huge, legitimate contribution and legacy gets to cash in on their status, vs. the typical influencer.

malthaus• 10 days ago

i'd say having "invented" the internet is a bigger claim to have influenced people rather than looking good in a bikini.

so fair game to cash in on that legacy.

jvanderbot3• 10 days ago

He worked on a few X projects and had some free reign to push next gen ideas. Delay tolerant networking is the one I interacted with the most, as well as Google Loon, if you recall that.

esafak• 10 days ago

Was DTN used in Loon? They are a natural fit.

acheron• 10 days ago

Launder Google’s reputation, I assume.

qmarchi• 10 days ago

He was involved in the design, planning, and future-proofing one of the major redesigns of Google's data center fabric. Google, AFAIK still uses a derivative of the fabric today.

Disc: Former Googler, Cloud Networking.

TAlborough• 10 days ago

Thank you. May your peace continue.

PaulHoule• 10 days ago

I was impressed with Vint Cerf when I saw him at a distance but once I had dealings with him about issues such as: the way the internet has become a pernicious influence, how the ACM is an industry group for computer science professors that doesn't support practitioners [1], the ACM's support for H-1B visas [2] I came to the conclusion that this quote is about him:

   “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on 
    his not understanding it.”
    
    ― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/21810-it-is-difficult-to-ge...

[1] open access journals were a big step forward, but I was open access decades before

[2] i'll join a club which is neutral on the issue, but I can't accept the positive position, not because I feel it threatens me but because it pains me to see a brilliant data scientist being jerked around (bad enough that the HR lady leaves) and not being able to tell him "your skills are in demand and you can find another employer on the other side of the street" (this is NYC) And the argument that "startups" need it is bogus: Google can take a chance on a lottery, a key employee at a startup is key however.

hydrogenbon007• 10 days ago

I remember watching Lo and Behold by Werner Herzog and just going how dedicated the internet pioneers were working in their 70s and beyond.

Legends

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5275828/

indigodaddy• 10 days ago

Didn't know about this doc, thank you.

IncreasePosts2• 10 days ago

Vint cerf now vintage cerf

mehulashah• 10 days ago

For all the naysayers in this thread, I gotta say you’re wrong. Vint is a class act. Humble, helpful, and optimistic. Not to mention one of the most impactful computer scientists of our generation.

mark_l_watson• 10 days ago

Exactly right. I have only had one long conversation with him, but he was friendly and very interesting.

ocdtrekkie4• 10 days ago

[flagged]

tty456• 10 days ago

Has he really evangelized the evil practices that you are so concerned about? Or would you lump in anyone working at Google to not live up to your expectations?

tombert• 10 days ago

So, uh, are they hiring a replacement "Internet Evangelist"? I love the internet, I could evangelize!

blamestross• 10 days ago

My "When I met Vint" story is less exciting then some here. He attended the "Disability Support Group" at Google regularly. He made a point of just being there to listen and support others.

peterhunt• 10 days ago

When I was in elementary school in the 90s I was doing a project about this new (to me) thing called “the internet.” My mom helped me cold email Vint and he sent me a very nice reply. Never forgot that.

devilbunny• 10 days ago

I first heard about this internet thing from Cliff Stoll in The Cuckoo’s Egg. I got on a few years later.

For all that we complain, it’s still the most amazing thing ever.

user39393822• 10 days ago

Know him in real life. Don’t meet your heroes.

Hugsbox2• 9 days ago

Why not? Everybody else seems to have really nice things to say about meeting him

user39393822• 8 days ago

If anyone has a good reason to need to know they can email me.

bcjdjsndon• 10 days ago

Will we still be able to get ipv4 addresses?

afpx• 10 days ago

I worked with him at CNRI. Seemed pretty dim and overrated. I think people keep him around for the DARPA connection.

protocolture3• 10 days ago

Oh no. But who will write the poem if Vint Cerf is the one retiring?

aksss• 10 days ago

Hey, I met Vint once at a conference - we were talking about some subsea fiber projects I was involved with. At the time he was working on interplanetary IP (IPIP? jk), which I thought was pretty stellar. Nice guy and very curious - qualities we should all work hard to foster.

deelowe• 10 days ago

Had the pleasure of having dinner with Vint one evening. Such an amazing person. So incredibly humble and one of the most genuine people Ive ever met. As an aside, I asked him directly about the Al Gore internet meme and he said point blank that if it weren't for Als work in Washington the Internet wouldn't exist in its current form.

But yeah, just an awesome guy all around. One of the few people I consider to be a source of inspiration for me.

rsingel2• 10 days ago

Al Gore and Vint Cerf were both inaugural inductees in the Internet Hall of Fame

The Internet gets a hall of fame (yes including Al Gore) | CNN Business https://share.google/zmVES2oM7hINsW3mq

godzillabrennus• 10 days ago

Vint and I have been corresponding on and off for years over email and text. He's incredible. A friend had his startup business about to fail because the domain was stolen by Chinese hackers; they had been to court, but the judgments were going to take forever to enforce after the courts sided in their favor. So, I asked Vint what we could do. He said he was sitting with the head of ICANN and would inform him. He is truly one of the greatest minds and most genuine people of our time. Thank you for every interaction, Vint. I hope you enjoy retirement.

looopTools• 10 days ago

I had the privileged of seeing him deliver at Keynote at IEEE GlobeCom in 2019. He was funny, an amazing presenter, and very down to earth.

rsingel2• 10 days ago

For those interested in early internet pioneers, Wired did a collab with the internet society around the 1st group of folks inducted into the Hall of Fame, where wired independently wrote profiles of almost all of them.

https://www.internethalloffame.org/tag/2012/

Click on a profile, scroll to the bottom and click the Wired link

crazybonkersai• 10 days ago

I have always thought that The architect from The Matrix series looks like Vint Cerf. I wonder if Wachowskis had Vint in mind when casting

foota• 9 days ago

I once shared a proposal at Google that Vint commented on and encouraged me to follow up on. I haven't, but it certainly made my year :)

subsaharancoder• 9 days ago

He visited the Google Kenya office in Nairobi and then did a brief talk at the local tech hub, iHub, where someone asked him what his opinion was on bearing an uncanny resemblance to the architect of the matrix, I don't think he had watched the movie because the question escaped him. It's worth pointing out he was hard of hearing so may be he just didn't hear it clearly.

lasereyes136• 9 days ago

I met Vint twice where I spent about an hour each time talking to him in a group. It was years apart and he spoke about the social changes the Internet was bringing about. Always well spoken and thoughtful. It was impressive and I really appreciated was he had to say.

linzhangrun• 9 days ago

Things like this always make me feel how young the computer industry is, and how fast it has developed.

Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring

Related Stories